| Motto | Realising potential, creating the future |
|---|---|
| Established | 1963 |
| Type | Comprehensive |
| Headteacher | Mr. Steven Smith |
| Location | Fulfordgate Heslington Lane York North Yorkshire YO10 4FY England |
| Local authority | City of York |
| Staff | 135 |
| Students | 1,400 |
| School VLE: | http://vle.fulford.york.sch.uk |
| Website | www.fulford.york.sch.uk |
Fulford School is a comprehensive school and a Maths and Computing College on Fulfordgate near Heslington Lane in Fulford, York, England.
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It was founded in 1963 and has been a comprehensive school since 1970. The site is close to the former Fulfordgate football ground, which was demolished in 1932.
It is situated in Fulford on the southern edge of the city of York. The headteacher is Mr Steven Smith[1], who joined the school in 2001. It is about a half-mile from the University of York.
Fulford School was highlighted by The Independent as having the third best sixth form of all Comprehensive Schools in England.[2] It has been suggested that this may be the reason why many pupils from fee-paying Independent Schools have been leaving the private sector and electing to continue their studies at Fulford School.[3] In 2007, it got the best A level results in York LEA closely followed by the Huntington School, and the third best in the Yorkshire and the Humber region, beating four high-performing grammar schools. At GCSE, it again does very well for a comprehensive, but is second in York to the Manor CE School near Upper Poppleton on the A59, which does not have a sixth form.
A group of students from the school, working with students from University of York won the Regional Millennium Volunteer of the Year Team Award in 2007 for their work in renovating a youth room for young people.[4]
An increase in the number of pupils on roll led to extensive building programme in 2003 worth £3.5 million, which has added several new specialist classrooms to the school, which contains 4 Geography classrooms, 8 Mathematics classrooms and 2 ICT rooms. The new building is named the 'Archimedes Block' or 'A block' for short.[5] The addition of specialist status in Maths and Computing has also facilitated the much-needed upgrade of ICT facilities in the school. An enhanced centre was added to the school in 2006.[6] to allow the school to offer ten places to students with Autism and Asperger syndrome.
Fulford School's motto has recently been changed to Realising potential creating the future but in the past was the Latin phrase A Posse Ad Esse, which translates into English as From Possibility to Realisation